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Beit known that we, LEVI B. RAYMOND and WILLIAM ,HANLEL of the town of' Lockport, in Will county, and State of Illinois, have invented'a new and useful Improvement on o Sectional Vessel; end weide hereby declare the following to be :i full, clear, end exact description ol the sn'ine, reference being hed'to the' annexed drawings, making o. part ol' this spccilicaton, in whchf- I v.

Figure 1 isa plane view ou the top of the coupling-apparatus.

Figure 2, an isometricel'projeetion of the same; and

`Figure 3, a. perspective view ofthe vessel or the hull as it appears when being coupled together.

The nature ol' our invention consists in the construction of the hull of o bont or vessel in sections, in the manner hereinafter described. -4

a, fig. 3, represents. the hull so constructed that the stern of the forward section is concave in form to receive the bow of the reurtsection, as shmvn, so that euch section has s cutweter ond bow, and is of itself e separate and entire vessel. Figs. 1 and 2 show the coupling-apparatus, the erm projecting from one section t0 the. other,` andengaging with pins d, and operated by the levers i; which, when the sections are required to be drawn together, are brought drown tothe deck and held in Aplace'bythe rings e, ss shown in lig'. 3. The bow of' the coupling-upparatusin keeping the sections in line, and gvingthe sections, when joined, the appearance of one entire vessel'. This kind of' u vessel is more especially adapted to canals nud rivers lwith locks, or any place l where the n'ster is not-turbulent.

It will be seen that eachA-section is olf-` itself an entire vessel. and all but the rear one cnn be free from machinery, dto.; the reurone containing the engine. It is designed that ench section shall be of the size of en ordinary cnnnl-boa.t, und require a. crew no larger. When it is required to pass through locks the sections :tre sent through separately, and united again on the other'side. Each section except the lust `one hns n recess nt the centre of the stern, as shown in fig. 3, 4to receive the cutwater of thevvessel following, which, in conjunction with Athe recesses et n, assists Ain keeping the sections in line,.a nd"canses the former section to obey the helm of the latter perfectly,` as if the whole were one entire boat.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim,'and Vdesire to secure by Letters Potent, is as follows: The combination of the coupling-apparetns,l consisting of the arm c, pins d, lever ,vendrings e, with the hull of the sectional vessel a a, when arrangedand operating as and for the purposes set forth. i 1 LEVI B. RAYMOND. [L s] WILLIAM HANLEY, [L 8,] l Witnesses:l

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WILLIM W. MARGY. 

